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cannot build in a directory with non-ascii characters

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Message #139 received at 15260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: handa <at> gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
 15260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15260: cannot build in a directory with non-ascii characters
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:45:32 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> mule-cmds.el calls reset-language-environment, and language/english.el
> calls set-language-info-alist; both have the effect of resetting
> default-file-name-coding-system to latin-1 (!? an interesting
> "default" for a Unicode-era Emacs, perhaps Handa-san could comment why
> we still do that).

I know nothing about this, but eg glib defaults to utf-8, which seems
like a better default to me these days:

https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html#file-name-encodings

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